Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in drug discovery and development

B Van de Sande, JS Lee, E Mutasa-Gottgens… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) methods,
together with associated computational tools and the growing availability of public data …

Immune cell interactions in tuberculosis

JAL Flynn, J Chan - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Despite having been identified as the organism that causes tuberculosis in 1882,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis has managed to still evade our understanding of the protective …

T cell receptor repertoires associated with control and disease progression following Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

M Musvosvi, H Huang, C Wang, Q Xia, V Rozot… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Antigen-specific, MHC-restricted αβ T cells are necessary for protective immunity against
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but the ability to broadly study these responses has been …

CD8+ lymphocytes are critical for early control of tuberculosis in macaques

CG Winchell, SK Nyquist, MC Chao, P Maiello… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
The functional role of CD8+ lymphocytes in tuberculosis remains poorly understood. We
depleted innate and/or adaptive CD8+ lymphocytes in macaques and showed that loss of all …

Airway T cells are a correlate of iv Bacille Calmette-Guerin-mediated protection against tuberculosis in rhesus macaques

PA Darrah, JJ Zeppa, C Wang, EB Irvine, AN Bucsan… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), the only approved Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(Mtb) vaccine, provides limited durable protection when administered intradermally …

Intravenous Bacille Calmette–Guérin vaccination protects simian immunodeficiency virus-infected macaques from tuberculosis

EC Larson, AL Ellis-Connell, MA Rodgers… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is the most common cause of
death in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Intra-dermal Bacille …

A half-century of research on tuberculosis: Successes and challenges

BR Bloom - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2023 - rupress.org
Great progress has been made over the past half-century, but TB remains a formidable
global health problem, particularly in low-and middle-income countries. Understanding the …

Key advances in vaccine development for tuberculosis—Success and challenges

R Lai, AF Ogunsola, T Rakib, SM Behar - NPJ vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
Breakthrough findings in the clinical and preclinical development of tuberculosis (TB)
vaccines have galvanized the field and suggest, for the first time since the development of …

The dense-core plaques of Alzheimer's disease are granulomas

G Lemke, Y Huang - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2022 - rupress.org
Dense-core plaques, whose centers contain highly polymerized and compacted aggregates
of amyloid β peptides, are one of the two defining histopathological features of Alzheimer's …

Initial immune response after exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis or to SARS-COV-2: similarities and differences

A Aiello, S Najafi-Fard, D Goletti - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and Coronavirus disease-
2019 (COVID-19), whose etiologic agent is severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …